AWS started in year 2006 and has been growing consistently providing over 70 different services with their most popular AWS EC2 (elastic compute) and AWS S3 (simple storage service). AWS has been proven a huge success for companies of all size where they want to either move their dev and qa to AWS, or want to try out building new services without having to spend a vast amount of capital procuring IT hardware or they want to move their production environment to AWS or even legacy applications to AWS without having to go through hardware refresh for legacy apps.